plate tectonics

What is a submerged basaltic volcanoes more than 1 km high

What are the sloping areas beyond the continental shelves where the seafloor drops away quickly?

What is the name of the supercontinent when all of the landmasses were connected?

What are large, extinct, basaltic volcanoes with flat, submerged tops

What are the vast, underwater mountain chains that wrap around earth like lines on a baseball?

What are the narrow, elongated depressions on the sea floor?

Which of the following is NOT part of the continental margin?

What are gently sloping accumulation of deposits from turbidity currents that forms at the base of a continental slope

What is a hole in the sea floor through which fluid heated by magma erupts

What is when the weight of the cool, dense subducting plate pulls the trailing slab into the subduction zone

Sends a sound signal and measures how long it takes to bounce back

What is it called when the flow in the outer core changes and changes Earth’s magnetic field to change direction?

Which boundary occurs when plates slide past one another

Who proposed hypothesis of Continental Drift?

Where are subduction zones formed?

What are rapidly flowing water currents along the bottom of the sea that carry heavy loads of sediments?

What are regions where two tectonic plates are moving apart

What are the flattest parts of the ocean floor, 5-6 km below sea level?

How are mountain ranges formed?

Device that is towed behind ships and can detect small changes in the magnetic field generated by ocean floor rocks

What is the imaginary line on a map that shows points that have the same age?

What theory explains how new oceanic crust is formed at ocean ridges, and is destroyed at deep-sea trenches

What is the shallowest part of a continental margin extending seaward from the shore?